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Connecting the Dots: How New Job Creation, IPO’s, and Venture Capital in America Are Intimately Linked

Pascal's View

There is plenty of debate, however, over what drives that job creation engine in our country. 6) The most efficient fuel for this IPO engine is venture capital. government dataset compiled by the U.S. The fact that Singapore, Brazil, India, China, Chile, the U.K., Of the 85 IPOs priced so far this year, only 28 are up.

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Entrepreneur-Friendly Policies (Finally) Showing Promise - But Leadership Required

Seeing Both Sides

In truth, it’s not small business that represents the country’s job engine. The Kauffman Foundation’s research on this matter is clear: from 1997 to 2005, job growth in the US was driven entirely by start-ups. The dearth of trained computer science and engineering is crippling the growth of many Innovation Economy companies.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

And this was at a prestigious engineering school. Extremely-Sharp.com originally started with a few retail locations in 1997, and we quickly started the e-commerce site the next year. I had previously worked at an executive level in the government, specialising in international relations. You couldn’t read it.